A Change of Terrain: A strategical "civilization" game
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There was once a nomadic tribe.
This nomadic tribe came to settle on a flat plain.
However, this flat plain was owned by a little-known god.
That god is you.
Will you nurture this growing tribe, or will you destroy them?
Only time will tell.

Okay, so this game is basically one of your average “civilization” games, with one key difference.
You aren’t allowed to affect the civilization in any direct way, meaning you cannot give them things directly, you cannot affect them directly, and you cannot lead them directly.
What you can do is send natural disasters, events, and other natural events to cause an event to occur. What I mean by this is: Let’s say you send a flood. The tribe will most likely start building walls to keep the water out, more boats to stay afloat, or other things.
Let’s also say you sent a drought. The tribe might try to find new ways to get water, start conserving water, or both.
Now, this won’t be just a simple “I do this and that happens” type thing, there will be many possible events that can happen depending on other circumstances.
For example: Some new inventions will just be invented over time, like electricity, others will have to have certain circumstances beforehand. If you wanted to start the Iron Age early, you would have to make a large amount of iron, make it easily accessible, and give them a way to mine/smelt/shape it.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s begin.

Year: 0People: 100Inventions: (New: Sedentary Life, Tools, Domesticated Cattle)
(Sorry, i havent painted the graphic yet, will have it up in a minute.)
(There is a mountain range to the north, a desert to the south, a low, hilly area to the east, and an ocean to the west.)
What will you do?

I will dry up all the drinkable water sources in the land, and begin a light rainstorm upon the village and surrounding areas; it will last a hundred years! I shall teach them how to harvest it to drink!

I will dry up all the drinkable water sources in the land, and begin a light rainstorm upon the village and surrounding areas; it will last a hundred years! I shall teach them how to harvest it to drink!

A heat wave hits the surrounding area, drying up the ocean and killing most plants. The desert to the south has increased GREATLY in size.
As a rainfall starts, a small basin fills up with water, creating a small lake near the village.

Keep the boar population a good size in the nearby area. Far enough away that they don’t kill off all the people, but close enough that the villagers can go hunt them.

The boars stay near the villagers, keeping their population steady, however, the boars cannot survive in the desert and quickly die off. The villagers recieve surplus meat, and, looking for ways to store it, discover salt.

Form a floating algae island populated by meerkats. In addition, at night chemical reactions in the algae turn pockets of water in the island into acid, killing fish for the meerkats. Life of Pi style.

Form a floating algae island populated by meerkats. In addition, at night chemical reactions in the algae turn pockets of water in the island into acid, killing fish for the meerkats. Life of Pi style.

…What?

As these things miraculously appear, the tribe begins to ponder the ideas of greater beings. Religion is invented.
(Note: Since Religion is now invented, there will be a bonus to “Ideas”, but “Inventions” will be hindered. This effect will not go away until the invention of the idea “Logic”.)

In honor of the creation of religion I place an altar to us gods near the village, along with some scripture in symbols (so fish represented by a picture of a fish, for example) so they can understand. I assume they don’t have a written language yet.

I create a pure white statue, emanating with some strange energy, in the center of the village. The statue takes the form of arkenarken. At the base of the statue are images depicting my head in the sky above the village, looking down and watching the village from the sky. Above the image is the symbols: “ARKENARKEN”. However as the tribe doesn’t know language yet they don’t know what it means.

Form a floating algae island populated by meerkats. In addition, at night chemical reactions in the algae turn pockets of water in the island into acid, killing fish for the meerkats. Life of Pi style.

…What?

As these things miraculously appear, the tribe begins to ponder the ideas of greater beings. Religion is invented.
(Note: Since Religion is now invented, there will be a bonus to “Ideas”, but “Inventions” will be hindered. This effect will not go away until the invention of the idea “Logic”.)

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